Hello all,
Considering there's no music and the potential tube strike I've decided it's better to postpone the stepping practice from this Monday as it seems like we're not making the most of the opportunity for help. This also means if people are worried about the strike they don't have to battle there way to and from practice.
Obviously there will be a normal practice so if you can make it please do!
I've asked Ru what dates she can do and she's checking the 13th with Jon. I know that means Ffion and Laura S won't be there but I'm hoping as many other people as possible will be available. If you're not please fill in your availability asap.
ALSO we currently don't have a set for Piccadilly on Thursday as Laura W. and Jo S. are down as nos, is this definite? Katherine's trying to suss how many pubs to push to get. We have a Westerhope and Jubilee set so is still worth crawling!
Thanks all, and sorry for messing you around.
Becky
Got this strange enquiry at work… Rapper has a lot in common with marriage
apparently!
Do we know who the local sides are to Lichfield?
Cheers, Laura
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From: *Christine* <christine(a)reflectiongardens.org.uk>
Date: 30 January 2017 at 18:47
Subject: Rapper teams
To: info(a)efdss.org
Hi ,
can you put me in touch with any rapper teams who would be willing to dance
at our golden wedding party, Sat. 1st April about 4pm near Lichfield? I
have tried whip the cat in Nottingham, and another team and gather there is
a big convention for rappers the following week. I have also found it hard
to get contact details so would appreciate your help. We think rapper
dances have much in common with marriage which is why we are so keen for
that form of dancing,
best wishes
Chris Polhill
Hi everyone,
Incredible amount raised on the crawl last week - so well done everyone!
And thanks for organising Ffion. (Completely forgotten the amount, but it
was more than £200!)
Not too much from me this week (I hope...)
We should now be all sorted for Katherine's Wedding, we'll start sorting
out payments etc for this in the next couple of weeks and try to make sure
there is a gap between this and DERT (as that's a long one that's at the
bottom... but please read it!)
1. New on the sign-up sheet - We have been invited by the Belles of London
to a Women's Day of Dance on 1st October along with Esps, Dacre and Camden.
The iea is to do a walking/public transport tour of London visiting some of
the favourite places of Maud Karpeles. They are hoping to raise money for
Women's Aid, but this is yet to be confirmed with the relevant authorities.
Please fill in the sign-up sheet with your availability. Other thing it
would be useful to get some replies for are the possible dates for going to
dance for Laura W's Old Folks - 18th Feb or 18th March - though I don't
think 18th Feb is actually viable.
2. DERT - So, the next thing we need trains for now is DERT, I think I
have information as to what time of day (almost) everyone would prefer to
travel up on the Friday - those of you that haven't could you add
yourselves on/email me to let me know. I would like to try and group people
together as soon as possible so we can get our tickets sorted. Trains are
roughly hourly throughout the day.
Cost-wise it looks to be ~£65 with a railcard. Without a railcard it looks
to be about £81 return. That group save appears to be a special offer on
the virgin trains website to Oxenholme and then a pair of singles, so may
be worth taking advantage of asap - otherwise it looks to be about £99 for
the straightforward return without railcard.
I will investigate what else we can do to make it cheaper (possibly a thing
via Manchester?), but I can't promise anything. We are travelling a long
way though, so given that is £30-40 each way to the Lake District it's not
that bad! There will be some subsidisation, so don't let the costs put
anyone off.
If you are (or could be) travelling with someone you might regularly travel
with, it may be worth considering getting a 2-together railcard.
I'm enjoying a significant reduction in the "No-replies" on the sigh-up
sheet - so thanks very much for that! :)
Have a lovely week.
Hannah :)
Hello all,
Thanks for a good crawl everyone!
I appreciate there probably wasnt enough dancing for everyone to make it even and I hope to spend the next couple of weeks working on evening out both what people know of piccadilly and westerhope.
Piccadilly people really well done. I think the hard work we put into the day practice has really paid off. Even when the movements aren't perfect the timings are working really solidly and we've definitely improved on all the dodgy areas! I also think we're getting an ace response off the audience and just need to make sure we keep up the amazing energy levels!
Westerhope people a huge well done on your first dance out! I know you only did it twice tonight but it is already looking so much neater an confident than you did before. You really look like you know what you're doing (even if it doesn't feel like it yet!) and I think with some gritty details work its going to look really really good. Well done to Rachel for whipping the dance into shape again :-)
Look forward to hearing what we made, thanks to ffion for organising, Sue for tommying despite the bad voice and Al the collectors throughout.
Also - what did people think of will the box player? I thought he was really good and basically said I'd talk to Kate about if she'd be interested in having him around for dert. Obviously we are not obliged to follow this through, and even if we did he might not be free, if you have any points particularly positive or negative please pass on!
See you on Monday!
Becky x
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Hello,
For the crawl tomorrow (not today as I erroneously briefly put on facebook!) let's meet at the Crown and Cushion on Westminster Bridge Road ready to dance at 7.30pm. It's the Irish one that does Thai food. From memory there aren't that many toilets so better get changed one by one.
Becky, there are a few pubs which are relatively large or have two rooms so might be possibilities for two dances. We might have to do that anyway as several pubs said they would be busy with football/pay day but we'll see what happens.
Ffion x
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Hi All,
We have a crawl coming up on Thursday around Waterloo-ish - so look out for
further info from Ffion.
Date for your diaries - the lovely Ru is coming to do a stepping practice
with us on 6th February, to help us all get better at stepping and make
sure we're all consistent. Please do try to make it, I think everyone who
was there for it last year found it really helpful.
DERT - just a quick one. I know I've been bugging you all a lot about
trains lately, so thank you so much for all the responses. Could I just ask
those of you who haven't yet filled out the approx time of day you would be
willing to / like to travel on the Friday night out on that
spreadsheet/email me about it (sorry about the horrendous permissions
thing!) then we can start grouping up. Thrales will also be taking the
train (apparently quite a few during the day), so we can form groups with
them as well, which should give us a bit more flexibility.
See you on Thursday!
Thanks,
Hannah
